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Hazel Grace Lancaster is the protagonist of John Green’s book The Fault in Our Stars, which was published on the 10th of January 2012. She is based on a girl called Esther Earl Grace, she had cancer and she died on the 25th of August 2010.

Biography
Hazel Grace Lancaster (also known as Hazel Grace) was born on the 29th of September 1996. She is 16 years old and she is the only child of Frannie and Michael Lancaster. She is a white female who lives in Indiana, which is also known as Indianapolis. She finished highschool early, but she is pursuing a college education because she got her GED early. She is diagnosed with stage 4 Thyroid cancer with metastasis in her lungs. She was diagnosed with it when she was 13 years old. She has managed to live with her disease due to a drug called Phalanxifor which is a short-term remedy for cancer because it slows the growth of cancer, but it doesn’t stop the cancer from invading her body. It’s an infamous drug because it doesn’t work for 70% of people. It is an experimental drug and it ensures that Hazel’s lungs won’t fill up with water.

Appearance
Hazel Grace is a White American female who has a slim build. She is 5’8 and she has Green eyes. She has brown hair that she describes as a pageboy haircut. She has ‘chipmunk cheeks’ because of steroidal treatment. She looks like Natalie Portman from V for Vendetta, which is Augustus’ favourite movie. She wears tops, jeans and converse to look like Anna who’s a character from her favourite book An Imperial Affliction. The book’s written by an author called Peter Van Houten. She has to carry an oxygen tank wherever she goes, this is because it is attached to a cannula that she has to wear underneath her nose and above her mouth. This can also be seen as a fashion accessory to most people but it provides her with oxygen that helps her to breathe because her lungs ‘suck’ at being proper lungs.

Hazel’s Attitude Towards her Cancer
Hazel thinks that her cancer is a side-effect of dying because she has read a lot of information on it when she is online and through pamphlets about cancer. She also thinks that her mom is a little bit crazy because she thinks that Hazel is depressed since she hasn’t been outside and she doesn’t behave like a normal teenager who has friends and is sociable. Hazel’s mom thinks she has depression because Hazel is shy and anti-social and Hazel is incredibly lazy because she sits around the house watching TV, reading the same book over and over again. Hazel quotes "“I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in my bed, read the same book over and over, and ate infrequently.”" She is also quite lazy because she doesn't go anywhere and she only reads her favourite book several times a day which makes her mom worried about her so she sends her to support group, which makes Hazel angry because she doesn't want to spend any time around other cancer patients until she meets Isaac and Augustus Waters who are the only two people that she thinks are normal enough to hang out with and will make her life a little less bleak and un-exciting. This is quite a shock to her mom when she learns that Hazel has made a friend from support group so that she can live a normal teenage life instead of hanging out with her parents 24/7.

Meeting Augustus Waters
Hazel meets Augustus at a support group for cancer patients. She is getting a cookie and some lemonade when she senses someone staring at her she quotes “a boy was staring at me” she glances back and then she notices that Augustus is still staring at her and it occurs to her why they call it eye-contact. She sits down two seats away from him and he’s still watching her. She describes Augustus as a “hot” guy because she thinks he’s good looking and she feels “rather blushy” when he’s still staring at her. She finally decides to act defiant and stare back at him because she thinks that boys don’t have a monopoly on the staring business. These stares turn into a full on staring contest and Augustus smiles and looks away because he’s lost and Hazel ‘flicks her eyebrow up’ to say she’s won. Hazel comments on Augutus’ voice because she is kind of swooning over it because his voice is “low,smoky and dead sexy,” this makes Hazel want to know more about Augustus because he is a mysterious boy. Hazel contradicts Augustus by saying that his fear of oblivion is not relevant because she thinks that everyone will die and there’s nothing that they can do about it. After Hazel’s mini speech Augustus smiles a little crooked smile, which shows that he’s trying to be sexy while staring at her. Hazel quotes his smile to be “too big for his face” since he’s been proven wrong and he is shocked but amazed at the same time and he says “goddamn. Aren’t you something else?” After the support group Augutus asks Hazel for her full name and then he tells Isaac to tell Hazel a story about what happened when he went ot see the doctor about his retinoblastoma which is a rare eye cancer that slowly eats away at the retina in the back of the eye. Augustus tells Hazel a theory about the church that they’re in and he says ‘literally’ and Hazel is confused about what he’s just said to her so she asks him to clarify and he tells her a little fact that “we’re literally in the heart of Jesus. I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” This leads to a conversation about why Jesus would store kids with cancer in his heart. Hazel catches Augustus looking at her in an intense way and she questions this and he answers her by saying “because you’re beautiful” and he explains to hazel that he likes looking at beautiful people because he’s made a decision that he doesn’t want to deny the simpler pleasures of existence. He elaborates on the fact that Hazel has pointed out that oblivion will end everything, Hazel doesn’t think that she’s beautiful, and Augustus cuts her off and compares her to a famous actress called Natalie Portman from a film called V for Vendetta because he thinks Hazel is a millennial. He gives Hazel an overview of the film and tells her it’s her autobiography and Hazel quotes that “his every syllable flirted” which shows that she’s attracted to him. Augustus demands that Hazel should go and watch V for Vendetta at his house with him but Hazel thinks he could be an ax-murderer. After a while, Augustus takes out a cigarette packet and Hazel starts ranting about smoking and how it’s a harmartia and the fact that he had ‘FREAKING CANCER’ he gives money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER. Hazel quotes “let me assure you that not being able to breathe? SUCKS.” Hazel comments on Augustus’s jawline when he has the cigarette in his mouth she thinks he has a hell of a jawline when it tightens, this makes him look attractive. After a long few seconds Augustus reassures Hazel that he doesn’t smoke. He tells her they don’t kill you unless you light them, because he’s never lit one before. He says “it’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” Hazel gives Augustus a fact about metaphors, which is “you choose your behaviours based on their metaphorical resonances…” Augustus gives hazel his big goofy real smile and tells her “I’m a big believer in metaphor, Hazel Grace.”

Falling in Love with Augustus
Hazel and Augustus go to his house and watch V for Vendetta and they talk a lot. Hazel introduces Augustus to An Imperial Affliction, Augustus introduces Hazel to The Price of Dawn. They trade books and a few days later Augustus texts Hazel about the ending of the book because he is confused about what happens to Anna and the other characters in the book. After this moment they become very close friends, but Augustus wants to be more than friends with Hazel. She has very strong feelings for him but she hides them because she doesn’t want to hurt him. Hazel and Augustus are arguing about why she doesn’t want to be more than friends with him and she tells him why. She says “I like you and I like hanging out with you and everything, but I can’t let this go on any further,” Augustus asks her why not and she replies by saying “because I don’t wanna hurt you.” Augustus tries to reason with her by saying he wouldn’t mind if she hurts him, but Hazel insists that he doesn’t understand what she’s trying to say and he contradicts her by saying he understands what she’s trying to say and it’d be a privilege to have his heart broken by her. Hazel is adamant that she can’t be more than friends with him because she is yelling at him by saying “Gus I’m a grenade, one day I’m going to explode and I’m going to obliterate everything in my wake and I don’t know I just I feel like it’s my responsibility to minimize the casualties.” Augustus then tells Hazel that they’ve got to do something about the frigging swing set and they sell it online. Hazel and Augustus text and she thanks him for understanding that they can be just friends and they say okay to each other but Augustus starts flirting so she tells him to stop. Augustus texts Hazel while she is reading The Price of Dawn but she doesn’t reply to them since she is so engrossed in the book. Then after a few days they text about An Imperial Affliction while Hazel is eating dinner. They text all the time until before they go to Amsterdam when Augustus tells her he loves her on the plane. Hazel quotes "I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly and then all at once." Hazel loves Augustus unconditionally because she falls for his crooked and too big for his face smile and all the theories and metaphors that he tells her about. Hazel also likes him because he makes her feel alive instead of the girl who has cancer and he likes how smart and funny she is. Hazel and Augustus make a code word, which is the word okay because it means that they will always be together as boyfriendType equation here. and girlfriend and that they’ll have a forever and a future together.

Hazel and Augustus’s time in Amsterdam
Before Hazal and Augustus actually go to Amsterdam he emails Peter Van Houten and gives Hazel his email address. Hazel emails him and gets an invitation to go to Amsterdam where Peter Van Houten will tell them all the secrets that are held in her favourite book An Imperial Affliction. Hazel faints and becomes unconscious before she goes to Amsterdam so she has to be in the ICU for a few days, so the doctors say she can’t travel to Amsterdam because they can’t get enough oxygen on the plane, but a few weeks later the genies come through and grant Hazel her wish to go and see Peter Van Houten. Hazel texts Augustus to get his passport and they board the plane, on the plane Hazel and Augustus sit next to each other and she puts her head on his shoulder and her mom says they look cute together but she denies that she is in a relationship with him at the time. They go to the hotel and get dressed up because they are going on a date to a restaurant called Oranjee where they eat fancy food and drink champagne that is made of stars. In the restaurant Augustus tells Hazel he loves her and he gives her a whole speech on why he loves her. After that they dance and they go back to the hotel where they make love for the first time. After a few days Augustus tells Hazel that his PET scan lit up like a Christmas tree and the cancer has spread everywhere in his body and there is nothing that the doctors can do about it.

Meeting Peter Van Houten
"It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures."<— Peter Van Houten /blockquote>

Peter Van Houten is the author of Hazel’s favourite book An Imperial Affliction, he is also the father of Anna Van Houten who is the inspiration for his book because the protagonist of his book is called Anna. Anna died at the age of 8 from Leukemia. Peter Van Houten loved her so much that she became an inspiration to the book An Imperial Affliction. When she passed away Van Houten wrote the novel so he could give her a second chance at teenage life. When Hazel and Augustus meet him he was a disappointment to them because he was drunk and incredibly rude to them and his assistant Lidewij. He insults them and he refuses to answer any of Hazel’s burning questions about the book. He crushes her dreams of finding out about what happens to some of the cahracters in the book such as Anna’s mom, the Dutch Tulip Man and Sissyphus the hamster. Though he appears to be a heartless drunk, genius intellectual, he lost his sense of direction and moral compass when his daughter died, so to atone for his mistakes he flies down to Augustus’s funeral to apologise to Hazel. Van Houten and John Green believe that once the book is finished, the future of the story does no longer lie in the hands of the author, but it lies in the readers hands.

Hazel and Augustus’s time in the Anne Frank House
After Van Houten dismisses Hazel and Augustus from his house they are leaving his house in anger and disappointment when Lidewij stops them and takes them to the Anne Frank house to cheer them up. Hazel is determined to climb the stairs to see all the exhibits in the house. When they get to the top Hazel and Augustus kiss in front of an audience who applaud them because they are showing love and affection in a place where there is the history of a girl who was put through trials and tribulations because of her religion and her eye colour and hair colour. Hazel kissing Augustus shows him that she isn't pushing him away anymore because she doesn't care if she's going to explode like a grenade because she will find out that he is going to leave her all by herself in the end. They walk around the museum until they get to the top to see the final room of The Anne Frank House. This experience is a way of Lidewij making it up to them after they've been rejected by their idol Van Houten who is a man that they talked about with great respect and admiration but after they saw him in real life their opinions changed about him. This act of love means that Augustus has won Hazel over and he doesn't have to keep trying to get her to like him as more than a friend anymore which makes him happy.

An Imperial Affliction
An Imperial Affliction (also known as A.I.A) is Hazel’s favourite book and it’s written by an author called Peter Van Houten. Hazel reads this book a lot when she used to spend her days in doors but then Augustus came crashing into her world and made her experience so many new things in life such as going to a park, going abroad, going to egg Isaac’s ex-girlfiriends car. Hazel insists that Augustus has to read An Imperial Affliction and it becomes one of his favourite books. Hazel and Augustus talk about the book throughout the book version of The Fault in Our Stars. This book means a lot to Hazel because she can relate to the main character of the book since she has cancer so she knows what the process of dying feels like. She also wants to find out about some of the central characters in the book such as Anna’s mom and the mysterious man who is called The Dutch Tulip Man and Sisyphus the hamster. She views the book as a reference to her own life because she doesn’t want to die without knowing if her parents will be okay when she’s not there anymore, but she doesn’t know that her mom has been taking classes to become a social worker for children and their families who are going through the same situation as Hazel, which means her mom will be okay if she dies and that their life will go on without her.

The Price of Dawn
"All I ask in exchange is that you read this brilliant and haunting novelization of my favourite video game.” 

-Augustus Waters, requesting Hazel Grace to read a novel based on his favourite video game.

The Price of Dawn is a book that is given to Hazel by Augustus. It features a male protagonist whose name is Max Mayhem, he is a traditional tough-guy soldier who involves himself in larger than life exploits that help him save the world by going to war. Augustus scribbles his number in the book before he gives it to Hazel so they can talk to each other. Hazel suggests that she’ll call Augustus after she finishes the book. Hazel starts reading the book and she describes it as ‘blood,’ but she likes the character of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, even though he killed 118 individuals in the span of 284 pages. She stays up the whole night to read the book, which shows that she actually enjoys the book, even though it is filled with action. She goes to the mall to buy the sequel and prequel to the book and they are called Midnight Dawns and Requiem for Mayhem.

Augustus’s Eulogy for Hazel
Before Augustus dies he writes a letter to Peter Van Houten so he can leave a message for Hazel since he won’t get to write a eulogy for Hazel because at the end of the book and movie she is still alive. She is really angry that Augustus died before her because she didn’t have enough time to spend with him after their trip to Amsterdam and they could never get married of have a future together. At the funeral Peter Van Houten tries to tell Hazel all the answers to her questions, but Hazel has seen his true colours and she wants nothing to do with him. Later that day Isaac tells her that Augustus wrote a letter to Van Houten about her so she gets in her car and reads the eulogy. Augustus writes: Mr. Van Houten, I’m a good person, but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person, but a good writer. I think we’d make a good team. I don’t wanna ask you for any favours, but if you have the time, and from what I saw you have plenty, please fix this for me: it’s a eulogy for Hazel. She asked me to write one and I’m trying. I just… I could use a little flair. See the thing is.. we all wanna be remembered, but Hazel’s different. Hazel knows the truth. She didn’t want a million admirers, she just wanted one. And she got it, but she was loved deeply. And isn’t that more than most of us get? When Hazel was sick, I knew I was dying, but I didn’t wanna say so. She was in the ICU when I snuck in for ten minutes and I just sat with her before I GOT caught. Her eyes were closed, her skin pale, but her hands were still her hands, still warm, and her nails wer painted this dark blue colour, and I just held them. And I willed myself to imagine a world without us and what a worthless world that would be. She’s so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she’s smarter than you, ‘cause you know she is. She’s funny without ever being mean. I love her. God, I love her, I’m so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have a say in who hurts you. And I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. OKAY, Hazel Grace? OKAY. This is the last thing that Augustus has said to Hazel because this letter carries a conversational tone so Hazel can hear the love in her boyfriend’s voice, when she’s reading this letter. She’s going to carry these words in her heart for the rest of her life, this is how she is going to hold on to Augustus in her own way so that she can grieve for him. Augustus’s death takes a toll on Hazel because he was her best friend and her lover all rolled into one and she’s never going to see his real goofy smile that is too big for his face because he’s gone and these words are the only reminder that he existed. She says okay because she’s promising Augustus that she likes her choices in life even if she gets hurt in the end.

The Fault in Our Stars is turned into a movie
The Fault in Our Stars is a coming of age romance movie, that was released in 2014 and it is directed by Josh Boone, The movie is based on the book that was published in 2012, and it’s written by John Green. The film has a cast with very big names such as Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort who have also appeared in The Divergent trilogy of films as Tris and Caleb Prior. Hazel Grace (also know as Shailene Woodley) is forced to attend a support group where she meets another cancer patient whose name is Augustus Waters (also known as Ansel Elgort) and she eventually falls in love with him. Development of The Fault in Our Stars started in January 2012 when 20th Century Fox optioned the rights to turn the novel into an adaptation such as a feature film. Principal photography of the film started on the 26th of August 2013, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and some additional days in Amsterdam. The photography finished on the 16th of October 2013 because Pittsburgh doubled some of the scenes that would take place in the novels setting, which is Indiana, Indianapolis, as well as some interior scenes that took place in Amsterdam. The film had it’s world premiere at Seattle International Film Festival on the 16th of May 2014 and it was released in the United States on the 6th of June 2014 and this was done by 20th Century Fox. The film received a lot of positive feedback from it’s critics who gave a lot of praise to Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort’s performance and chemistry together during the film. As well as the script, the film was very popular in the box office during its opening weekend and it was very popular on a world-wide scale as it made over 307 million dollars against a budget of 12 million dollars. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on the 16th of September 2014 and it was very popular in it’s distribution as it made 42 million dollars in domestic video sa